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Authors: James M. Glass
Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust (25 page)
The Silence of Faith Facing the Emptied-out Self
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Lawrence L. Langer,
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991, p. 25.
2
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Ibid., p. 12.
3
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Ibid., pp. 15–16.
4
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Ibid., p. 33.
5
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Ibid., p. 48.
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Ibid., p. 49.
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Ibid., p. 59.
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Ibid., pp. 63–4.
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Ibid., p. 65.
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Ibid., p. 68.
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Ibid., p. 71.
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Ibid., p. 84.
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Ibid., p. 86.
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Ibid., p. 96.
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Ibid., p. 119.
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Ibid., p. 131.
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Cf. D.W. Winnicott,
Collected Papers
. London: Tavistock, 1958; see also this concept in R.D. Laing,
The Divided Self
. New York: Penguin, 1978.
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Langer,
Holocaust Testimonies
, p. 136.
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Ibid., p. 140.
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Ibid., pp. 148–9.
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Ibid., p. 149.
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Ibid., p. 150. Pesach Schindler’s meticulously researched book on Hasidic responses to oppression and violence suggests that spiritual resistance was a far more intense and difficult experience and should not be understood as a ‘veneer of respectability’ for impossible moral situations.
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Ibid., pp. 165–6.
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Ibid., p. 165.
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Ibid., p. 168.
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Ibid., p. 176.
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Ibid., p. 177.
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Ibid., p. 178.
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Ibid., p. 180.
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Ibid., p. 180.
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Shimon Zuker,
The Unconquerable Spirit: Vignettes of the Jewish Religious Spirit the Nazis Could Not Destroy
. Trans. by Gertrude Hirschler. New York: Mesorah Publications, p. 28. See also
Spiritual Resistance: Art from Concentration Camps, 1940–1945: a Selection of Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Kibbutz Lochamei HaGhettaot Israel
. With essays by Miriam Novitch, Lucy Dawidowicz, Tom L. Freudenheim. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981.
32
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Quoted in Steven L. Jacobs, ed.,
Studies in the Shoah. Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. Vol. V, p. 142.
- Zuker,
The Unconquerable Spirit
, p. 28. - Ibid., p. 129.
- Nachman Blumental, ‘Magical Thinking among the Jews during the Nazi Occupation’. In Nathan Eck and Arieh Leon Kabovy, eds.,
Yad VaShem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance
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- Zuker,
The Unconquerable Spirit
, p. 7. See also Rabbi Ephraim Oshry,
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The Yiddish Book, Churbvan Lila
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- Ibid., p. 64.
Law and Spirit in Terrible Times
- Cf. Irving J. Rosenbaum,
Holocaust and Halakhah.
Jerusalem: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1976. - Ibid., p. 4.
- Ibid., p. 5.
- Ibid., p. 65.
- Ibid., pp. 5–6.
- Ithamar Gruenwald
, Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism
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- Ibid.
- Ibid., pp. 164–5.
- Ibid., p. 49.
- Ibid., pp. 49–58.
- Ibid., p. 56.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., p. 21.
- Ibid., p. 27.
- Ibid., p. 35.
- Ibid., p. 36.
- Ibid., p. 38.
- Berkovits,
Faith after the Holocaust
, p. 69. - Ibid.
- Ibid., p. 81.
- A. Adelson and R. Lapides,
Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community under Siege.
New York: Penguin Books, 1991, pp. 348–9.- Joseph Horn,
Mark it with a Stone
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68.
- Joseph Horn,
- Ibid., p. 71.
- Ibid., p. 77.
- David Kraemer,
Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature
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Mark it with a Stone
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